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52nd out of 338 books
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Sugar and Spice
by
Fern Michaels,
Beverly Barton, Joanne Fluke, Shirley Jump (Goodreads Author)
'Tis the season when anything can happen...when passion sparks brightest...and miracles and magic can turn any heart toward love...
The Christmas Stocking - (Fern Michaels) - Philadelphia businesswoman Amy Baran is determined to raise money for a new seniors' center by harvesting Christmas trees from the small-town Virginia farm she remembers from her childhood. Trouble is...more
The Christmas Stocking - (Fern Michaels) - Philadelphia businesswoman Amy Baran is determined to raise money for a new seniors' center by harvesting Christmas trees from the small-town Virginia farm she remembers from her childhood. Trouble is...more
Mass Market Paperback, First Printing, 431 pages
Published
November 1st 2006
by Zebra
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4 contemporary Christmas stories from authors I've never heard of before.
Fern Michaels - 3 stars. Hero & heroine come home for the holidays to help out their parents (his dad/her mom). I liked this story. There were 2 episodes though that were kind of awkward (when his dead mom "talks" to him & his dad. They're not having auditory hallucinations, because the dog hears her too. I could MAYBE have accepted this if it were in a paranormal, but this is supposed to be a regular story!). If y...more
Fern Michaels - 3 stars. Hero & heroine come home for the holidays to help out their parents (his dad/her mom). I liked this story. There were 2 episodes though that were kind of awkward (when his dead mom "talks" to him & his dad. They're not having auditory hallucinations, because the dog hears her too. I could MAYBE have accepted this if it were in a paranormal, but this is supposed to be a regular story!). If y...more
I bought this used at our local Friends on the Library bookstore. I am happy to say it still had the free ornament in it. That helped with the rating.
I do not believe I had read any of these authors before. I will not be reading anything by Joanne Fluke again. Her story The Twelve Desserts of Christmas was more about the mystery solving baker and her desserts than about the romance. If I had read one of her full length novels about said baker I might have enjoyed the story more, but as an introd...more
I do not believe I had read any of these authors before. I will not be reading anything by Joanne Fluke again. Her story The Twelve Desserts of Christmas was more about the mystery solving baker and her desserts than about the romance. If I had read one of her full length novels about said baker I might have enjoyed the story more, but as an introd...more
Sugar and Spice is a really lovable sweet read for the holidays . A great book to just curl up and read. There is four different stories by four different authors.The christmas stocking by Fern Michaels. Two adult children come home for the holidays to help there parents and raise money for a new senior center will Amy and Gus fall i love? The Ghost of Christmas past by Beverly Barton-Mack MacKinnon a wounded special ops officer isn,t looking forward to the holidays - until he rescues pretty wid...more
Jan 12, 2012
Arow
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3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
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For what they are; all of the short stories were good. They were light romantic fluff that takes your mind off of what is actually happening in your life :-) I read the collection due to my love of Joanne Fluke. Other than Fern Michaels I had not hear of the other authors.
The Christmas Stocking by Fern Michaels was my favourite. I actually enjoyed the story telling alternating between the two main characters. Obviously the story would never happen but it was sweet and very loving.
Ghost of Chri...more
The Christmas Stocking by Fern Michaels was my favourite. I actually enjoyed the story telling alternating between the two main characters. Obviously the story would never happen but it was sweet and very loving.
Ghost of Chri...more
“The Twelve Desserts of Christmas” by Joanne Fluke is a short story featured in the book Sugar and Spice by Fern Michaels. Julie Jansen, a teacher of Lakes Academy in Minnesota, is asked by Dr. Caulder if she could stay at the boarding school over Christmas to keep an eye on the girls who couldn’t go home for the holidays and she says yes. Coincidentally, Dr. Caulder then asks Matt Sherwood, another teacher and also Julie’s love interest, if he could stay to watch the boys and of course he agree...more
This book is a collection of four romance novellas set during Christmas time.
First up is "The Christmas Stocking" by Fern Michaels. It finds Amy Baran and Gus Moss returning to their hometown to help their parents with projects relating to Christmas trees. Along they way, they meet and the sparks fly. The story started well, but I felt the plot resolved about thirty pages before the story ended.
Second comes "The Ghost of Christmas Past" by Beverly Barton. Katie Hadley is trying to escape her f...more
First up is "The Christmas Stocking" by Fern Michaels. It finds Amy Baran and Gus Moss returning to their hometown to help their parents with projects relating to Christmas trees. Along they way, they meet and the sparks fly. The story started well, but I felt the plot resolved about thirty pages before the story ended.
Second comes "The Ghost of Christmas Past" by Beverly Barton. Katie Hadley is trying to escape her f...more
I only read Joanne Fluke's Twelve Desserts of Christmas. I'm so used to her Hannah Swensen mysteries that I expected something similar in this one. However, it was kinda romancy.
Two teachers work in a boarding school over Christmas as 3 boys and 3 girls have no place else to spend it. Matt Sherwood and Julie Jansen are also romantically involved. Their cook, Mrs. Dryer, didn't make them any desserts, so Hannah is brought in to the rescue.
If you like short romancy tales, this would be for you.
Two teachers work in a boarding school over Christmas as 3 boys and 3 girls have no place else to spend it. Matt Sherwood and Julie Jansen are also romantically involved. Their cook, Mrs. Dryer, didn't make them any desserts, so Hannah is brought in to the rescue.
If you like short romancy tales, this would be for you.
I only read the Joanne Fluke story in this book and even though it wasn't a mystery I really enjoyed it. Hannah was present thoughout about 80% of the story and she helped two teachers at a boarding school fall in love when they were stuck at school over Christmas break watching children who couldn't go home. It was a cute, sweet story.
This is a book of four short stories. I downloaded it to read the Joanne Fluke story, which was O.<., and it didn't have anything more than kissing. It's about two teachers, who were asked to stay at the school, to watch six students, who couldn't go home for Christmas. The girls bet against the boys, that theeir male teacher will propose to their woman teacher by Christmas. It's a light and funny story.
The first and second stories were not too bad. The fourth story started out with swearing...more
The first and second stories were not too bad. The fourth story started out with swearing...more
I like silly Christmas books, so I'll give them a lot of slack, but this one was not good. Sad. I think some of the stories could have been good, but were obviously rushed. It did make me feel like I could easily be an author, which is a nice feeling.
This book is a collection of short works. I read the novella by Joanne Fluke to complete my Hannah Swenson series. Fluke uses the Hannah Swenson series characters as minor characters in the story, but it is a romance and not the mystery that I expected.
I read this because of the story by Joanne Fluke - "The Twelve Desserts of Christmas". It didn't have very much to do with Hannah Swensen and the regular plots of her stories, but it was a decent short story.
I ended up LOVING the story by Shirley Jump - "Twelve Days". I wanted it to be longer, but it still felt like enough story to be satisfying. I loved the characters and will be interested to check out other things by this author.
I did not read the first two stories in the book as they did no...more
I ended up LOVING the story by Shirley Jump - "Twelve Days". I wanted it to be longer, but it still felt like enough story to be satisfying. I loved the characters and will be interested to check out other things by this author.
I did not read the first two stories in the book as they did no...more
4 short stories about Christmas but 4 different authors. Lots of romantic "spice" and sugar also. I have read books by several of the authors and this was just a quick read for enjoyment.
This is a short stories book. It's definitely not my normal genre, as it sits right in the middle of romance. I like a little romance but not too much. The first story The Christmas Stocking by Fern Michaels is very good, a few curse words but nothing terrible, the second, The Ghost of Christmas Past by Beverly Barton, has a few more curse words, and a very graphic love scene, the third, The Twelve Desserts of Christmas by Joanne Fluke, was really good. The fourth short Story, Twelve Days by Shi...more
I have a love/hate relationship with anthologies. Some I love, others not so much. This one fell in the not-so-much category. I liked a few of the stories, but others annoyed me.
I read "The Twelve Desserts of Christmas," but not the other short stories. I like to read them when I read other works by the authors.
Four short stories about Christmas by authors, Fern Michaels, Beverly Barker, Joanne Fluke, and
Shirley Jump. I read this because it was next in the Joanne Fluke series that I read, but I really enjoyed all the stories, especially The Christmas Stocking by Fern Michaels.
Shirley Jump. I read this because it was next in the Joanne Fluke series that I read, but I really enjoyed all the stories, especially The Christmas Stocking by Fern Michaels.
"The Twelve Desserts of Christmas" by Joanne Fluke. all the rest will be bonuses
Only 1 of 4 stories in this book. Much too sickly sweet and no murder. What is that?
I only read the Twelve Desserts of Christmas by Joanne Fluke (for now).
Really enjoyed the stories by Beverly Barton and Shirley Jump.
like the hannah swensen story--other stories boring
tried to read each story, just holiday fluff. one author's character is so obsessed with food that she thinks in time chunks of how long it will take to bake goodies!!
Liked the Joanne Fluke story. Did not like the rest.
Light fluff for quick holiday read 4 short reads
A selection of short stories by varied authors. Okay reading.
Interesting variety of stories - especially from writers I've not experienced before. Perfect reading while I was sick in bed!
good to read for holiday
An enjoyable set of four quick, fun reads about the holidays!
Sep 03, 2009
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great, good,amazin!!
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Fern Michaels (born Mary Ruth Kuczkir) is an American author of romance and thriller novels, including nearly 50 best selling books with more than 70 million copies in print. Her USA Today and New York Times best selling books include Family Blessings, Pretty Woman, and Crown Jewel, as well as the Texas quartet and the Captive series. She started writing in 1973 when her youngest son went off to s...more
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